Torpedoed

German postcard showing the torpedoing of Lusitania

This picture was faked.
The torpedoing arose so much anger in the United States and elsewhere, that from that moment on American participation in the war could not be avoided anymore.
In Germany the disaster was applauded as the public learned that the liner carried ammunition on board to England.

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